[[Image:Map or aerial photo|400px|thumb|Map of the dive site at Livingstone Reef]]

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Fairly high profile reef around the pinnacle, and another large outcrop some way to the east. Quite pretty. Typical medium depth west False Bay invertebrate cover, with lots of sea fans.

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Fairly high profile reef around the pinnacle, and another large outcrop some way to the east. Quite pretty. Typical medium depth invert cover, with lots of sea fans.

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===Position===

===Position===

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* S34°10.605' E018°27.571'

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* 199° magnetic to Roman Rock lighthouse

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* 276° magnetic to Long Beach

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This site is in a Marine Protected Area (2004). A permit is required. The site is entirely within the Boulders Restricted Zone of the Table Mountain National Park MPA.

This site is in a Marine Protected Area (2004). A permit is required. The site is entirely within the Boulders Restricted Zone of the Table Mountain National Park MPA.

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===Topography===

===Topography===

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North and south slopes down rapifly to sand, east and west more gradual, with quite an area of low reef. Further to the east it gets more rugged again, and to the north more reef is visible a few metres away across the sand.

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The pinnacle is fairly compact, but made up from a group of large rocks clustered together with crevices, gaps, and a few overhangs. The highest rock extends about a metre above the 15m depth, and the local area is generally above 18m for several metres around.

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The surrounding reef is relatively low, mostly between 21 and 18m deep, and the sand is at about 23m.

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The reef is elongated from north-west to south-east. The length is estimated at about 250m, and width fron south west to north east is about 30m near the pinnacle. The pinnacle slopes down rapidly to sand to the north-east and southwest, while to the south-east and north west the slope is more gradual, over quite an area of low reef. Further to the south-east it gets more rugged again, and to the north-east more reef is visible a few metres away across the sand.

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About 100m to the south-east of the pinnacle there is another slightly lower monolithic pinnacle reaching up to about 16m depth from the sand on the north eastern side. This area has not yet been mapped.

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Boat dive: The site is too far offshore to swim

Boat dive: The site is too far offshore to swim

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The site is about (distance)km from Miller's Point slipway, (distance)km from False Bay Yacht Club, or ()km from [[Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Long Beach|Long Beach]]

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The site is about (distance)km from Miller's Point slipway, (distance)km from False Bay Yacht Club, or 3.3km from [[Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Long Beach|Long Beach]]

==See==

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Revision as of 11:56, 19 March 2012

The dive site Livingstone Reef is an offshore rocky reef in the Roman Rock area of Simon's Bay, in False Bay, near Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

Understand

Fairly high profile reef around the pinnacle, and another large outcrop some way to the east. Quite pretty. Typical medium depth west False Bay invertebrate cover, with lots of sea fans.

Position

S34°10.605' E018°27.571'

Bearings:

199° magnetic to Roman Rock lighthouse

276° magnetic to Long Beach

This site is in a Marine Protected Area (2004). A permit is required. The site is entirely within the Boulders Restricted Zone of the Table Mountain National Park MPA.

Name

The name "Livingstone Reef" is derived from the name of the diver who found the pinnacle by accident when diving the north pinnacle of Castor Reef. The reef was known to exist, but had not been reported before as a dive site.

Depth

Maximum depth is about 23m on the sand and the top of the pinnacle is about 14m. There is another pinnacle to the east which comes up to about 15 or 16m.

Topography

The pinnacle is fairly compact, but made up from a group of large rocks clustered together with crevices, gaps, and a few overhangs. The highest rock extends about a metre above the 15m depth, and the local area is generally above 18m for several metres around.

The surrounding reef is relatively low, mostly between 21 and 18m deep, and the sand is at about 23m.

The reef is elongated from north-west to south-east. The length is estimated at about 250m, and width fron south west to north east is about 30m near the pinnacle. The pinnacle slopes down rapidly to sand to the north-east and southwest, while to the south-east and north west the slope is more gradual, over quite an area of low reef. Further to the south-east it gets more rugged again, and to the north-east more reef is visible a few metres away across the sand.

About 100m to the south-east of the pinnacle there is another slightly lower monolithic pinnacle reaching up to about 16m depth from the sand on the north eastern side. This area has not yet been mapped.